ST. JOHN’s – The CBC plan to expand its supper hour news programs from 30 to 60 minutes without increasing local news budgets is a bad idea, says TV…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has restructured so that the issues facing its members are looked at as a whole and not so much within the traditional…
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OTTAWA – After a lenient lower court sentencing of a pedophile, the hosts of TQS program L’Avocat et le diable teed off on the judge last May 31. And,…
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TORONTO – CTV and Rogers today announced new three-year television deals with the National Football League beginning next season, shutting out CanWest Global, which has carried American football for…
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TORONTO – With Canadian broadcasters in Los Angeles now viewing this fall’s potential U.S. hits (not to mention the great big misses) – and making commitments to buy, too, Canada’s…
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MONTREAL – Like every other conventional television broadcaster in English Canada, Quebec’s Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS) had argued for the CRTC’s acceptance of carriage fees to help OTAs compete with…
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OTTAWA – "It’s a missed opportunity," says Guy Mayson, summing up the Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s overall reaction to the CRTC’s new over-the-air TV policy.
Speaking to…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – As we told you on Monday, the CRTC will release its new policy on conventional, over-the-air television. In fact, it will be released today.
The primary issue…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Saying the need for new subscriber fees wasn’t demonstrated by conventional broadcasters, the CRTC’s new convention television policy does not include a boost in Canadians’ cable or…
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VANCOUVER – The CBC reached into the private broadcast pool of talent for a new leader in British Columbia.
M Channel’s vice-president of programming, Johnny Michel, has been hired…
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